Setting planned lead times for a make-to-order production system with master schedule smoothing

• Main Authors: Teo, Chee-Chong, Bhatnagar, Rohit, Graves, Stephen C.
• Other Authors: Nanyang Business School
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Production Smoothing; DRNTU::Engineering::Civil engineering; Make-to-order
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/89757; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/48051
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This article considers a make-to-order manufacturing environment with fixed guaranteed delivery lead times and multiple product families, each with a stochastic demand process. The primary challenge in this environment is how to meet the quoted delivery times subject to fluctuating workload and capa...